nTop 4.14 is here! This release features our new Column from Text and Table from Columns blocks that lets you create Tables easily. As with every release, nTop's dedicated support team is ready to answer your questions. Please visit support.ntop.com to gain access to helpful tutorials and support articles.
Column from Text
- The Column from Text block can be used to create Columns from text lists directly in nTop. You can then use the Columns to compose a Table using the Table from Columns block.
- You can use this block in general data processing, design exploration, and design reporting workflows, among many others.
- You can use this block with the Text from Scalar block to convert Scalar values into Text values.
- Block Name: Column from Text
- Location: Utilities > General
- Description: Creates a Column from a Text List.
- Rows: Text List to convert to a Column.
- Header (Optional): Option to define a Header value. If undefined, the resulting Column will have an invalid Header.
- Output: Column
Table from Columns
- You can now use the Table from Columns block to compose Tables directly in nTop.
- You can use this block in general data processing, design exploration, and design reporting workflows, among many others.
- You can use this block with the Export Table block to export the table to an external directory as a CSV file.
- Block Name: Table from Columns
- Location: Utilities > General
- Description: Combines multiple Columns of data into a single Table.
- Columns: Columns to be combined.
- Output: Table
Block Updates
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Table type has two changes:
- The existing property "columns" has been renamed "column count" for clarity.
- There is a new property, "columns", that is a list of the new Column type.
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- Extract Columns block has been renamed to Extract Columns as Text to distinguish from the new Column type.
- We updated the Export FE Mesh to CFD block to support the STL file format for FE surface meshes. This update lets you apply names to element sets defined with the CFD Boundary on FE Mesh block for STL files. Although the element set or boundary names are available in the STL file, the boundary types are not supported for this format.
Bug Fixes
- We fixed an issue with the "Cache Locally" and "Version Number" options appearing between Run and Manual Run Mode instead of after in the right-click context menu.
- We updated the Thermal Analysis and Nonlinear Thermal Analysis blocks to use a pseudo-static solver when radiation boundary loads are applied to improve the accuracy of the thermal results.